Re: Expansion of Electronic Filing Pilot Program - Court of Common Pleas

Appellate Case No. 2015-002439

ORDER

Pursuant to the provisions of Article V, Section 4 of the South Carolina Constitution,

IT IS ORDERED that the Pilot Program for the Electronic Filing (E-Filing) of documents in the Court of Common Pleas, which was established by Order dated December 1, 2015, is expanded to include Calhoun County. Effective August 7, 2018, all filings in all common pleas cases commenced or pending in Calhoun County must be E-Filed if the party is represented by an attorney, unless the type of case or the type of filing is excluded from the Pilot Program. The counties currently designated for mandatory E-Filing are as follows:

Aiken

Allendale

Anderson

Bamberg

Barnwell

Beaufort

Cherokee

Chester

Clarendon

Colleton

Dorchester

Edgefield

Fairfield

Georgetown

Greenville

Greenwood

Hampton

Horry

Jasper

Kershaw

Lancaster

Laurens

Lee

Lexington

McCormick

Newberry

Oconee

Orangeburg

Pickens

Richland

Saluda

Spartanburg

Sumter

Union

Williamsburg

York

Calhoun—Effective August 7, 2018

Attorneys should refer to the South Carolina Electronic Filing Policies and Guidelines, which were adopted by the Supreme Court on October 28, 2015, and the training materials available on the E-Filing Portal page at http://www.sccourts.org/efiling/ to determine whether any specific filings are exempted from the requirement that they be E-Filed. Attorneys who have cases pending in Pilot Counties are strongly encouraged to review, and to instruct their staff to review, the training materials available on the E-Filing Portal page.